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On Joseph Cropsey's 'What is welfare economics?' Universiteit Gent
Economics of milk production and animal welfare on dairy farms Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
This study investigates the relationship between animal welfare and cost efficiency on dairy farms in Flanders, Belgium. Both animal welfare and cost efficiency were approached as integrated scores before analysing the relationship between its component parts. A sample of 263 farms was used to estimate farm specific cost efficiency with data envelopment analysis (DEA). On 41 of these farms, animal welfare was assessed with the Welfare Quality® ...
Behavioral welfare economics and redistribution KU Leuven
Behavioral economics has shaken the view that individuals have welldefined, consistent, and stable preferences. This raises a challenge for welfare economics, which takes asa key postulate that individual preferences should be respected. We argue, in agreement with Bernheim (2009) and Bernheim and Rangel (2009), that behavioral economics is compatible with consistency of partial preferences, and explore how the Bernheim-Rangel approach can be ...
The insights of health and welfare professionals on hurdles that impede economic evaluations of welfare interventions KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Four hurdles associated with economic evaluations in welfare interventions were identified and discussed in a previous published literature review. These hurdles include (i) 'Ignoring the impact of condition-specific outcomes', (ii) 'Ignoring the impact of QoL externalities', (iii) 'Calculation of costs from a too narrow perspective' and (iv) 'The lack of well-described & standardized interventions'. This study aims to determine how ...
Barriers and opportunities for alternative measures of economic welfare Universiteit Gent
A conceptual exploration and critical inquiry into the theoretical foundation(s) of economic welfare measures Universiteit Gent
Economic welfare measures (EWM) such as the ISEW and the GPI are often argued to lack a sound theoretical foundation. However, we observe that the initial EWM were jointly inspired by Hicksian and Fisherian income. Welfare's experiential nature is Fisherian-inspired, whereas seeing the consumption of community capital (e.g. the ecosystem) as a cost is Hicksian-inspired. As most scholars do not recognize this double theoretical foundation, two ...